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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Cartesian \Car*te"sian\, a. [From Renatus Cartesius, Latinized from of Ren[82] Descartes: cf. F. cart[82]sien.] Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Ren[82] Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. --Sir W. Hamilton. {Cartesian co[94]rdinates} (Geom), distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes. {Cartesian devil}, a small hollow glass figure, used in connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of air in changing the specific gravity of bodies. {Cartesion oval} (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of the curve mr + m[b7]r[b7] = c, where r and r[b7] are the distances of the point from the two foci and m, m[b7] and c are constant; -- used by Descartes. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Cartesian \Car*te"sian\, n. An adherent of Descartes. | |
